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Re: Questions before my first upload attempt



Hi,

Danny Edel wrote:
> Debian actually has ready-made VM scripts for you.
> https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild

They urgently need advertising at the entry points
of mentors.debian.net and at the upload instructions.


>  call "debuild -S" on your host machine first:
> This will create a .debian.tar.xz and a (signed) .dsc file in "..", then
> you can call "sbuild --dist sid your-package_version.dsc". If that goes
> through, you know your dsc is good and you can upload it to mentors with
> "dupload --to mentors my.changes".

I was desparately digging the Debian docs for something
like this.


Hm. What shall i do with my brand new sid VM now ?
I copied the development workshop from the host and
installed the needed packages for dpkg-buildpackage.
The first round of packages is built as was done
on the host machine and installed.

Next i plan to test the proposed command debuild.

So many branches to explore ...


https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild#Setup writes:
>    5  ... *logout* and *re-login*

I'm logged in by my X session and want to keep it running.
Line 2 seems newer than the explanation beneath.
So line 5 would be covered by:
  "The fourth line is to update the active user group set
   to include sbuild."


> logout-relogin or use "newgrp sbuild" in your current shell.

Aha. Enlightenment.
A fruitless google search of "active user group set"
already brought me to the suspicion that something around
newgroup(1) was meant.


> so make sure to have > 10G space there.

2 TB free. My mass storage still produces an echo when i shout.


Well, i need to make some progress with uploading.
So i'll go on with the VM for now. I need to learn a bit more
about what sbuild does. On the long run it looks cleaner.

Which one to install ?
  dput: /usr/bin/dput
  dput-ng: /usr/bin/dput
My Jessie obviously has "dput" installed.

So many branches ...


Have a nice day :)

Thomas


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